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Campaign HQ with David Plouffe

A look at the Senate races

Campaign HQ with David Plouffe

Cadence13

News, Politics

4.71.5K Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2020

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Scott Fairchild is the Executive Director of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. Scott and David take a tour of the top Senate races and talk about the path to 50 seats. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey, everybody's David Pluff. Welcome to Campaign HQ. Well, we have a ticket, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. They will hopefully

0:16.5

make history together, defeating Donald Trump, first African American major party nominee.

0:25.2

We can see just in the last, really 12 to 16 hours,

0:29.8

how excited people are.

0:31.2

We knew this pick was coming.

0:32.4

We knew Kamo Harris was a possibility, but it

0:35.4

certainly strikes me how excited people seem to be about this. I think they're going to be a very strong

0:40.9

partnership on the campaign trail. Most importantly,

0:43.8

if Joe Biden wins, I think she'll be just an incredible asset as a partner in government and

0:49.2

digging us out of this whole of Donald Trump has left us domestically internationally.

0:54.0

So we'll hear from her today, her first remarks with Joe Biden as his running mate.

1:01.9

That's always a big moment when the two of them

1:04.0

join but I think for Kamala Harris as you think about the campaign she's got two

1:08.1

big hurdles in front of her she needs to give an excellent speech next Wednesday

1:12.1

during the Democratic Convention.

1:14.6

Virtual, though it may be, it will still be an important moment.

1:18.5

And then the most important moment for any vice presidential nominee is that debate. So there's one VP

1:26.4

debate. It's currently scheduled for October 7th in Salt Lake City. We assume

1:30.8

it's Kamala Harris and Mike Pence, although I still don't think it's out of the question that Donald Trump dumps Pence in the next couple weeks

1:37.0

You know it's different because traditionally you have a running maiden

1:41.4

the presidential candidate maybe in Ohio and Wisconsin and Arizona and Nevada in one day and you know the running mate may be in Florida North Carolina in New Hampshire.

1:52.4

That's not the case anymore. be in Florida, North Carolina, New Hampshire.

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